edit: as did the 3rd. And 0 bytes returned so probably being blocked. On a black list already?
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#22In the most amazing coincidence the first two pages I submitted had the same digest: 90c0568! One was the front page of a news site, the other was the management page of a company I follow. The mind boggles. Or, they have a bug. edit: as did the 3rd. And 0 bytes returned so probably being blocked. On a black list already?
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#23In the most amazing coincidence the first two pages I submitted had the same digest: 90c0568! One was the front page of a news site, the other was the management page of a company I follow. The mind boggles. Or, they have a bug. edit: as did the 3rd. And 0 bytes returned so probably being blocked. On a black list already?
Getting the same digest (90c0568) with no response code and a 0 byte response size so looks like something is broken (the crawler maybe).
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's your twitter id. You're trending on PH.
The product doesn't have a twitter as the name was occupied by others. :) Personally I don't use twitter neither. Email me if you need to contact.
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#28If you prefer privacy and control over your own tools, there are the FLOSS http://specto.sourceforge.net/ or the free(as in no cost)ware http://www.cmcode.co.uk/webmon/ for Windows
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#30Does this site respect robots.txt? Does it render javascript content (so e.g. angular sites work)? Does it exclude or include comments... if I watch a blogpost with comments will every new comment cause an alert or only blogpost changes? Will I get a notification if the page briefly 500 errors when you hit it, or does it have to get a 200 before it reports a change? Will I get a notification if a page disappears enti…
Go write your own then. I find this a bizarre response to a simple and easy to understand tool.